Progressives Wrong to Bash Warren

Posted January 31, 2017 by Randy Shaw

Until last week, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was a beloved progressive icon. Her populist attacks on Donald Trump drew such raves that many progressives pushed for Clinton to make Warren her VP. Now Warren is being criticized by Markos Moulitsas
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Revolutionaries Lived in San Francisco but Wore No Flowers in Their Hair

Posted January 31, 2017 by Peter Cole

Mat Callahan, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975. Oakland: PM Press, 2017. As the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco’s “Summer of Love” begins, Mat Callahan wants us to question its myths. Young
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Democrats Can’t Fight Trump While Making Deal on Infrastructure

Posted January 31, 2017 by Angie Schmitt

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will “claw, scrap, and fight with every fiber of my being” to overturn Donald Trump’s executive order preventing refugees and residents of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country. If that’s the
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Let’s Put Trump Inc. Out of Business

Posted January 30, 2017 by Randy Shaw

To Get Trump’s Attention, Hit Him in Pocketbook As activists figure out how to impact a president unconnected to political and human reality, one Trump vulnerability stands out: his love of money. No prior President has been so economically vulnerable
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State of Resistance: Artists Push Back

Posted January 30, 2017 by Bill Raden

(This piece first appeared in Capital and Main) One particularly unsettling portent from the presidential election may have been the role that artists didn’t play. Though political caricaturists and satirists had a field day, no Shepard Fairey stepped forward from
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To the Editor…

Posted January 26, 2017 by Beyond Chron

Subject: Turning the Marches Into a Movement MoveOn organized local community meetings across the country to discuss how to resist the new liar-in-chief before the Women’s March and then organized #Resist Tuesdays, starting 1/24. Several hosts of community meetings in
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To the Editor…

Posted January 26, 2017 by Beyond Chron

Subject: State of Resistance: Labor Will Double Down in Trump Era Kentucky, Missouri, and New Hampshire are now under unified Republican control and are set on passing right-to-work laws, which lessens union power by allowing workers in unionized workplaces to
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Early Thoughts on SF’s 2019 Mayor’s Race

Posted January 26, 2017 by Randy Shaw

With San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee having three full years left in his term (he gives his 2017 State of the City speech today at the Tenderloin’s Hibernia Bank), it seems premature to discuss the November 2019 election for his
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